A very popular question about swimming is , should you learn to breath out of alternate sides?
I have always breathed out of my right side, I guess that is just the way I feel most comfortable.  Breathing on the opposite side seems very awkward and usually made my feet start to fall.
You should always incorporate the use of bilateral breathing, if you’re not already. It will balance out your stroke and create symetry in back muscle development. The issue when breathing only to one side is that it can make …

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Triathlon Training : Proper Swimming Techniques

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Swimming is often the mosted feared and weakest portion of your triathlon skills.  Keri-Ann Payne and Cassie Patten from guardian.uk.com sayto use the following tips on you next workouts.
Sighting
It’s much easier than you think to swim off course during an open water swim (witness David Davies’ mistake in the Beijing 10km open water event) – wasting time and energy. The way to prevent this is to learn how to ’sight’.
Sighting basically means looking where you are going – and the best way to do it is to look up every few …

Don’t let anyone fool you, people who train for long distances in a pool are VERY likely to pee in the pool.  Chlorine should kill this fairly easily as poses no real health risk.  I found some links on the effects of peeing in the pool.